Global Commercial Banking Survey 2014

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Executive summary

The rapidly evolving

business landscape

Evolving segmentation
and service strategies

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Conclusion

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ver the past 12 to 18 months, the global economy

has shown signs of recovery. Global markets have
rebounded (albeit with some recent volatility), and
banks have begun to report improving credit quality and
stronger balance sheets.
But despite these encouraging indications, the outlook
remains cloudy. Around the world, companies are experiencing
uncertainty around increasing regulation, interest rates,
employment levels and economic growth.

In the midst of the mixed signals, successful banks will be

those that execute and innovate to increase their market
penetration and share of wallet in spite of at markets.
With the continuous rise in the cost and burden of regulatory
compliance, it is more important than ever to focus on
strengthening customer relationships to nd new sources of
growth and protect against increasing competition from banks
and non-traditional entrants.
As part of EYs ongoing commitment to providing banks
with insight on different types of bank clients, we undertook
a global survey to explore the changing requirements and
expectations of mid-market customers, dened as those
commercial banking customers with annual revenues of
US$25 million to US$500 million in established markets
and US$15 million to US$500 million in emerging markets.
We chose to isolate this segment due to its strategic
importance and heterogeneous nature, making it one of
the most challenging to serve.
Our ndings are based on interviews with more than 2,000
commercial banking customers domiciled in 24 countries
around the world. We collected input from a representative
group of nancial decision-makers about their banking
relationships, with emphasis on current and anticipated
banking needs.

<rawing on this input, we provide insights into ve timely and

strategic topics:
Overall customer satisfaction and concrete ways banks can
make improvements
Current digital banking usage and how banks can promote
even greater adoption
Companies use and consideration of non-bank competitors
Optimal service models for divergent company needs
Drivers of actual vs. threatened customer attrition
In addition, we isolated three distinct global customer
segments based on commonalities in strategic growth
priorities, product usage, digital adoption and potential returns
to the banks:
1. The Increasingly International segment includes
companies with cross-border ambitions, high digital
adoption and an increasing need for a wide range of
banking products and services.
2. The Traditionalist segment includes smaller, primarily
domestic companies that tend to use fewer products and
are slower to adopt new banking channels.
3. The Diverse and Dynamic segment includes companies
with wide-ranging strategic goals but, when examined
through the lens of technical savvy, whose common
priorities and drivers for bank selection and channel
preferences become more apparent.
We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to
discuss the issues raised in this paper and the implications
for your organization. Please visit ey.com/commercialbanking
for additional information, including insights on other topics
affecting the banking industry.
Bill Schlich
Global Banking & Capital Markets Leader
EY

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Executive summary

anks are facing virtually unprecedented challenges

in the current environment. Customer needs and
expectations are changing rapidly at the same time
as loyalty declines and switching of providers increases.
Satisfaction levels are being eroded by nagging operational
issues and underwhelming onboarding experiences, and
further budget cuts are placing an additional burden on
customer-facing bank personnel. Digital channel adoption is
growing globally, yet security concerns limit its effectiveness.
Management teams have to do more with less as competition
continues to escalate among traditional banks as well as
ambitious new entrants.
To increase protability and respond to these market
pressures, banks need to leverage available data and
analysis to develop a deeper understanding of the customer.
Technology will play a crucial role in designing an enterprisewide system that provides different parts of the organization
with a common view of a customers entire footprint. That
single view will be crucial as banks encourage more
customers from all segments to use digital channels more
often for basic banking activities. It should also result in
more effective onboarding.
Where customers need to use multiple channels during a
transaction, they will expect the bank to have and provide a
real-time view of where they are in the process. However, the
improved customer satisfaction and greater efciency derived
from more widespread use of digital channels are dependent
on banks enhancing security, functionality and ease-of-use.
By engaging in a continuous dialogue with customers through
a rolling customer-experience program, banks can supplement
the data available for analysis. This dialogue also provides
a valuable opportunity to track progress against changing
expectations, measure the success of new initiatives and target
business development initiatives more effectively.
Where banks represent a companys customers and suppliers,
theres an opportunity to build a prole of the whole business
life cycle, which can be used to identify business problems
across the supply chain and offer appropriate solutions.

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This is a difcult task for many banks given current systems

constraints, but relationship managers should strive to identify
and capitalize, where possible.
Banks must become more efcient and effective in serving
their mid-market customers. By using more sophisticated
segmentation criteria, banks can categorize customers more
accurately and apply more tailored service models. These
models will meet customer requirements more effectively, cost
banks less to support and help banks to unlock greater revenue
potential from this diverse group of customers as well.
Beyond enhanced segmentation and service models, banks
can make important headway with customers by investing in
training and development to equip relationship managers with
the skills necessary to address customers evolving needs. With
the right training and incentives programs in place, bankers will
more accurately identify optimal solutions that drive cross-sell
without coming across as merely pushing products.
In addition to training, banks need to provide relationship
managers with the technology and information they need to
enable them to be more effective as advisors for customers
and business developers for the bank. Digital technology will
minimize the amount of time bankers have to spend dealing
with routine servicing issues.
Countries included in survey
Americas (developed)
Canada, United States

Americas (emerging)
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

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China, India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Thailand

EMEA (developed)
France, Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Spain,
Switzerland, United Kingdom

EMEA (emerging)
Nigeria, Poland, Russia,
South Africa, Turkey

For interview quotas obtained in each country, visit ey.com/commercialbanking.

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The rapidly evolving business landscape

he banking landscape is changing, creating opportunities

for those banks that understand the underlying drivers
and act swiftly to capitalize on their own competitive
advantages. Non-traditional competitors are emerging. In
addition to the more established alternatives to banks, such
as credit card and insurance companies, new entrants are
contributing to altering patterns in bank loyalty and
switching service providers. In this new environment,
ensuring sustainable protability requires a more nuanced
service strategy.

For many banks, the strategic response will draw heavily

on technology solutions that were not available just a few
years ago. New digital banking channels are being adopted
and embraced by a signicant proportion of mid-market
companies. The new tools and capabilities provide banks
with a degree of efciency and exibility that will change the
economics of service in the commercial banking business.
Beyond efciencies, enhanced technology capabilities will
improve banks abilities to provide always-on access and
enable relationship managers to dedicate more time to
positioning product and service solutions. The speed of
change in the digital IT space requires a different approach
to monitoring and managing IT innovation and investments.
Winning organizations will invest in technology as well as the
training and education of both customers and employees to
drive even greater utilization.

There is room for improvement across the industry, particularly

in the sub-US$50 million revenue bracket. As expected, it is
the larger companies that benet from more attention and
report greater levels of overall satisfaction with their primary
banking relationship (/3 are highly satised vs. .0 of the
smaller companies1).
While sustaining highly satised customer relationships
among this diverse customer group can be expensive and
time-consuming, analysis shows a strong correlation between
customer satisfaction and successful cross-sell (see Chart 1).
The business challenge is to nd the right service approach
that suits customers needs while remaining protable for the
bank. This is no easy task as the service model customers want
varies from market to market and even company to company.
Chart 1. Strong correlation between customer satisfaction and
successful product cross-sell
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Customer satisfaction
Delivering a consistently excellent customer experience to
mid-market customers remains problematic for most banks.
Customer experience management and customer satisfaction
tracking programs have yet to yield steadily strong results
across portfolios, and company executives continue to report
varying satisfaction levels with their primary banking provider.

Unsatised (04)

Neutral (5/)

Highly satised (810)

Among the most powerful tools for driving customer

satisfaction are simple, convenient and efcient service
channels. Customers are increasingly turning to the new
digital modes of communication with their banks, and the

1 Highly satised is dened as customers that indicated 8, 1 or 10 on a 010

scale with 0 being very unsatised and 10 being very satised.

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When asked about reasons for not using online and mobile
channels more often, the most commonly cited concerns
related to security, slow speed and poor functionality (see
Chart 3). Additional security measures are the leading
enhancement customers believe would prompt more frequent
digital channel use while better functionality and the ability to
track the progress of transactions follow closely behind.

change in behavior is working well for users and providers

alike. Harnessing this potential to develop more effective and
efcient commercial banking relationships represents one of
the most compelling strategic opportunities for banks today.

Digital banking
An increasing percentage of customers want to do more of
their banking via digital channels, and providers are starting
to embrace the change. New online2 and mobile3 channels
present a powerful combination of sales and servicing
opportunities, along with substantial delivery efciencies for
banks (see Chart 2). A key driver of satisfaction will be how
successful banks are in providing a platform that is secure
and meets customer expectations for both functionality and
ease-of-use.

Despite strong momentum for adoption, and as more services

become available through digital channels, banks can do
even more to accelerate online and mobile usage. Training
and education initiatives for customers will more than pay
for themselves over time through servicing efciencies,
particularly for less protable segments. Teaching customers
to initiate and complete transactions through a single digital
channel will help build condence, address ease-of-use
concerns and shape future preferences.

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In particular, banks should be constantly informing customers

and their own relationship managers about comprehensive
security measures taken to protect customer identity,
personal and account information, and transactions. Banks
that succeed in reassuring commercial customers about the
safety of their platforms will remove a primary impediment to
further digital growth.
As we discuss in the next section, digital channel adoption
varies considerably among customer segments. It is important
for banks to understand these variances down to a company

level and to use these preferences when determining the best

service model for each customer (to be discussed further on
page 23).
Notwithstanding individual customer preferences, further
investment in digital technology and increased use of
self-service transactions should result in fewer manual
interventions and therefore fewer errors. However, mistakes
are a fact of life, and effective resolution will remain a crucial
aspect of the overall customer experience.

Chart 3. Obstacles to using online and mobile banking more frequently and features that would promote more frequent use
Obstacles to more frequent online/mobile use

39%

Security concerns
22%

17%

15%

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37%
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of transactions

21%

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46%

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25%

Poor functionality

48%

Enhanced security measures

42%

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Additional features or services that would prompt more frequent

online/mobile use

32%
37%

Flexibility to conduct more banking

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31%

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Error incidence and resolution

Routine account errors may seem like minor hiccups, but small
mistakes accumulate and fester. If left unresolved, they lead to
a gradual erosion of customer satisfaction levels. To mitigate
this risk, banks must pursue error resolution more proactively
and see the process through to completion.

engage in transformational change initiatives to improve

business efciency and effectiveness. Better performance in
this area should also help to reduce customer attrition rates.

Diminished loyalty

Nearly one-third of all companies say they have experienced

an error or problem in the past 1224 months. Globally, over
one-half of commercial executives report being less than highly
satised with their banks resolution of the situation. While
companies in the Americas tend toward higher satisfaction
levels, companies in developed Asia-Pacic markets are less
often highly satised with their banks responses (see Chart 4).

Given the competitive nature of todays marketplace, banks

must focus considerable resources both on retaining key
customers and nding new sources of growth. In most cases,
between three and six banks are vying to capture a greater
proportion of each customers business. The post-crisis
environment has been characterized by companies willingness
to move material parts of their banking business if presented
with a more attractive option. Relationship breadth or history
alone is no longer enough of a deterrent to prevent switching.

Process improvements that reduce or eliminate errors should

be an ongoing strategic priority at all banks. Error resolution
processes can serve as one of the key focal points as banks

Nearly one in ve companies reports having changed its

primary bank in the past year, with notable differences
across markets (Asia-Pacic emerging, 27% vs. Asia-Pacic

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developed, 10%). Potentially more worrisome is the fact

that far greater proportions of companies are open to the
prospect of making a change. More than half of the executives
in emerging EMEA markets indicate they would consider
switching banks over the next year (see Chart 5).

Chart 5. Bank switching by market

Over the past 12 months, have you switched your primary bank?
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Does price drive buyer

behavior?
While pricing is among the most often-cited reasons
for companies to consider switching banks, those
that have recently changed banks indicate a range of
inuences, including product capabilities, access to
capital, bank reputation and geographic coverage as
key reasons for making the change (see Chart 6).
Price can be an effective way to initiate a prospect
conversation, but it will not necessarily be enough
on its own to compel a mid-market company to leave
its current bank. Relationship managers (RMs) will
need to convey a value proposition encompassing
a range of benets that extend well beyond
competitive fees in order to unseat all but the
worst-performing incumbent.
Chart 6. Reason for switching banks

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However, once a bank has convinced a customer to switch

providers, it needs to make sure that the customers rst
experience is positive. Unfortunately, this is often not the case,
and there is signicant room for improvement across the whole
onboarding process.

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New customer onboarding

Increasingly rigorous compliance requirements have turned
many new customers onboarding experience into a frustrating
one. Overall, 46% of companies describe being less than
highly satised with their new banks process. Customers
report the highest satisfaction scores in developed Americas
markets (82% highly satised). However, 77% of companies in
developed Asia-Pacic markets reported they were less than
highly satised. For banks to avoid souring relationships from
the outset, these processes must be made less cumbersome
for customers.
Chart 7. Onboarding experience by geographic market

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Those respondents that were less satised4 with the

onboarding experience highlighted four areas where banks
should focus on making improvements:
Improve accuracy of transition: 34%
Reduce paperwork and documentation: 27%
Improve communications: 26%
Reduce duration of process: 13%
While accuracy, documentation and duration issues will require
further investment, time and operational streamlining, banks
can achieve immediate gains by setting reasonable customer
expectations, providing more frequent communications and
improving coordination across different parts of the bank.
These readily identiable areas are tangible ways for banks
to build a stronger foundation for sustainable satisfaction
and loyalty.
Multiple requests from different departments, often driven
by regulatory compliance requirements, such as know
your customer, and repeated requests for the same piece
of information are major pain points for new customers.
Over the longer term, management teams will need to make
investments in both processes and technology to simplify
the experience for customers. In our experience, these
initiatives should include integrating the account platform
with the customer portal, the banks customer relationship
management (CRM) system, and proposal management and
money movement tools.
We have found that a centralized repository for all customer
agreements will help support efcient document management,
including electronic signature and submission capabilities and
automatic archival. Banks can also clarify their information
requirements so that customers need provide information
only once, and the bank can convey that information across
different groups.

4 Dess than highly satised is dened as 07 on a 010 point scale, where 0

is completely dissatised and 10 is completely satised.

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Technology transformation
initiatives
Investment in technology transformation is enabling
banks to respond to the evolving demands of the
marketplace faster and more efciently. Through this
investment, banks will be able to increase process
efciency, improve data quality, achieve service
consistency and strengthen risk management. Banks
have begun to focus their investment budgets in the
following key areas:
Digital imaging and e-signature capabilities, which
support faster transaction approval and processing
Document management solutions, which help to
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Digital relationship management, a web-based CRM
platform with mobile functionality, which can be
accessed by relationship managers while in the eld
Enterprise data management, which will improve
banks ability to capture and analyze data more
holistically

Non-bank alternatives
A number of banks have already increased their focus on midmarket companies. In addition, more rms from outside the
industry are entering the market. Non-banks have traditionally
competed in product categories that, while important to banks,
tended to be more specialized in nature. However, advances
in technology are allowing some non-banks to increase
the scale and expand the breadth of their nancial service
offerings. Long-standing alternative providers, such as credit
card issuers and insurance companies, are being joined by
telecommunications and technology companies, alternative
asset managers, peer-to-peer lenders and specialist internet
rms competing in core banking areas ranging from lending
and trade nance to foreign exchange and merchant services.
For incumbent banks, the competitive landscape for
commercial banking is becoming increasingly crowded.
Chart 8 shows a wide range of products and services that
executives would consider obtaining from a non-bank.
For example, while no single non-bank is likely to threaten
traditional institutions, almost one-third of mid-market
companies would consider a non-bank for a commercial loan.
Banks must continue to fend off these diverse competitors that
are seeking to win portions of commercial customers banking
business. This is especially true in emerging economies, where
the proportion of companies that use or would consider using
a non-bank is notably higher (see Chart 9). In our Global
Consumer Banking Survey 2014, we also found a greater
openness to use non-banks among retail consumers in the
emerging markets.
With increased competitive threats, pressures and
expectations, addressing some of these core issues will benet
all customers. However, as their needs continue to diverge,
more effective segmentation will be crucial to ensuring service
models are properly aligned with customers preferences and
growth potential to allocate limited bank resources efciently.

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Chart 8. Use and consideration of non-bank products and services

Asset nance (e.g., equipment leases, computers, transport)

14%

32%

Corporate credit/debit/purchasing cards

15%

32%

Foreign exchange (currency conversion and/or hedging)

9%

31%

Cash management

10%

29%

Loans/commercial lines of credit

10%

29%

Merchant services

10%

28%

Retirement/pension plans

11%

27%

Investment banking

10%

23%

Interest rate risk management and/or derivatives (i.e., hedging)

10%

22%

New borrowing (past 12 months)

7%

22%

Trade nance/supply chain nance

9%

22%

Commercial mortgage(s)

7%

Personal wealth management

4%

14%

Business checking/current account

9%

0%

18%

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Would consider using a non-bank

Chart 9. Use and consideration of non-bank products and services by geographic market*
Overall
53%

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Emerging

50%

36%
57%

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Evolving segmentation
and service strategies

ith changing customer needs and intense margin

pressures, banks are recognizing that they need to
develop more efcient customer service strategies.
Enhanced customer segmentation models represent one of the
most important tools available for this undertaking.

potential protability to the bank. Revenue alone is a proxy

that cannot fully contextualize key business needs. But banks
have the opportunity to leverage the wide array of data already
available to them to construct sophisticated and intuitive
company proles.

As companies needs and preferences become less and

less homogenous, there is an opportunity to consider more
sophisticated segmentation methodologies that complement
and go beyond the traditional lters like revenue, industry
sector and geographic reach. Advances in technology and
greater degrees of exibility from other service providers have
made customers far less willing to accept traditional modes of
servicing from their banks.

In addition to customer data gathered from onboarding

activities and day-to-day relationship interactions, information
captured through rolling customer-experience research
programs can help banks remain attuned to evolving needs
and preferences. Our experience tells us that these programs
include both qualitative and quantitative metrics and analysis
derived from in-depth customer interviews. We have seen
such programs deliver an array of valuable benets that
can enhance marketing programs, strategic planning and
communication activities. Customer-experience programs can
also help banks to develop a much deeper understanding of
current and future product needs. With this additional insight,
proactive relationship managers can drive a larger share
of wallet and take pre-emptive measures to reduce
customer attrition.

Fortunately for banks, the same innovations that have raised

the bar in customer expectations have provided the means
to offer a much more customized level of service, and banks
have begun to take action. The ability to tailor their service
not only gives banks a powerful tool for improving customer
satisfaction levels, it also facilitates serving customers in a
cost-effective manner.
Of course, no bank has the ability to tailor servicing strategies
at an individual company level. However, thoughtful customer
segmentation strategies that identify companies with common
behaviors and preferences allow banks to align efcient service
models with the needs of different customer groups.

Creating activity- and

preference-based segments
Creating activity- and preference-based segments requires
company-level information to be synthesized in such a way that
it produces meaningful groupings based on preferences and

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As we highlighted in our 2014 report, Business banking:

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that banks can use for segmentation, and there is no onesize-ts-all approach. However, based on our experience
in customer proling and data analytics, more advanced
segmentation approaches consider companies behavioral
traits, the customer life cycle and growth potential, as well as
various risk metrics and total credit exposure. Data from our
sample of commercial organizations generated three distinct
global customer segments (see Chart 10). In practice, each
banks portfolio will yield slightly different distributions along
similarly modeled segments, based on its geographic presence
and business strategy.

Chart 10: Three distinct customer segments

Leading strategic priorities include international expansion and broadening current product/service offerings

Increasingly
Internationals
(36%)

On average, 41% of business is currently international, with an expected average of 53% over the next three years
Key selection criteria include bank reputation, innovative processes/services and willingness to customize offerings
Use an average of 6.7 products from their banks, including higher-margin offerings such as investment banking,
trade nance, cash management, foreign exchange and asset nance
Use an average of 3.71 banks
Largely savvy technology users with frequent online and mobile banking channel use (89% and 66%, at least weekly)
Simpler relationships with more straightforward strategic priorities revenue growth, cost reduction
Key bank selection criteria include relationship manager quality, competitive pricing and product/service quality

Traditionalists
(28%)

Somewhat smaller companies 60% under US$50 million in annual turnover

Tend to use fewer (3.97 on average) and more plain vanilla products and services, including commercial loans,
corporate/credit cards and cash management services
Have fewer banking relationships on average (2.4) and are less inclined to turn to a non-bank provider
Only 20% currently use a non-bank; 12% of those that do not would consider using one
Less frequent technology users, particularly in mobile (81% use online weekly; 45% use mobile weekly)
A heterogeneous collection of companies with potential for growth

Diverse and
Dynamics
(36%)

Strategic priorities range from increased cash ow to revenue growth, capital expenditure and cost reduction
On average, 42% of current business is international, with an expected expansion to 48% over the next three years
26% use more than four banking products while 38% use fewer than three
75% access their banks online platform at least weekly with approximately 80% reporting satisfaction with the channel
55% utilize their banks mobile applications at least weekly; however, 27% do not take advantage of the technology
51% use fewer than three banks, 18% use more than four

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Increasingly Internationals
Companies in the Increasingly International segment represent
the greatest growth and protability opportunities for banks.
However, a high-touch service model is required, centered
on strong relationship management and insight and enabling
the bank to help the company grow into its target markets.
These companies have a signicant international presence
and/or plans to expand further over the next three years.
They are technically savvy and generally comfortable
with digital platforms, preferring to conduct routine
account-servicing activities through digital channels, which
enables relationship managers to focus on strengthening
the relationship and address business issues. Increasingly
Internationals use higher-margin products, such as trade
nance and foreign exchange two to three times more than
any other segment.

Due to the potential of relationships with this segment, banks

face increased competition from other providers. Sixty-seven
percent of Increasingly International companies reported
having observed increased activity from banks to win their
business over the past year.
Banks must carefully assess whether the Increasingly
International segment is a t for their overall business strategy.
Pursuing and retaining these relationships without the right
product mix, expertise and international network will prove
frustrating and ultimately unprotable. Smaller, primarily
domestic players will want to evaluate potential partnerships
and alliances with banks in other key markets to enable more
seamless service across borders. For those that have sufcient
scale and appropriate operational capabilities, or those able to
establish such alliances, the Increasingly International segment
can be particularly lucrative.

International expansion
Banks serving the Increasingly
International segment must be aware
of companies current or anticipated
expansion beyond the country in
which they are based. Executives in
the segment report an average of 41%
of their business is currently being
conducted internationally, and they
expect that level to rise to 53% over the
next three years.

In APAC, emerging market companies

were twice as likely to be highly
satised with online and mobile
channels as their peers in the
developed markets (70% vs. 35%40%
highly satised).

As this group begins to execute on their

plans, banks must be cognizant of the
following characteristics, which are
unique to emerging markets:

Emerging market companies are

more likely than developed market
companies to have switched banks
in the last 12 months and to be
considering switching providers in the
next 12 months.

Businesses across all emerging

markets cited higher daily use
of online channels compared to
companies in developed markets.

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All emerging markets have a much

higher error incidence rate (11% or
higher) than developed markets in the
same geographic region.

Companies in the Americas emerging

markets are far less satised with
their onboarding experience than

those in the Americas developed

markets (69% highly satised with
onboarding experience vs. 82%,
respectively). However, in both
the EMEA and APAC regions, this
is reversed.
In both the Americas and APAC
regions, emerging market companies
are much more likely to consider using
a non-bank in the future than those
in developed markets in the same
region. Conversely, in EMEA, nearly
50% of developed market companies
would consider a non-bank in the
future compared with only 38% of
emerging market companies.

Traditionalists
Companies in the Traditionalist segment have more modest
growth ambitions, product requirements and potential fees
relative to their Increasingly International counterparts.
However, when serviced through an appropriate model with
the right approach and systems in place, the segment can
be protable for banks. To serve the segment protably,
banks need to equip and train Traditionalist customers to
self-serve where possible through a combination of enhanced
branch, online and mobile channels. These clients may expect
relationship managers to continue to play a role; however,
the banks should change the degree of their involvement.
Ultimately, there must also be an acknowledgement that some
customers in this segment may not be protable in light of
a particular banks business model and operating structure.
A level of attrition may therefore be necessary to deliver
acceptable returns.

With approximately one-half of the

worlds GDP expected to come
from rapid growth markets (RGMs)
by 2020, and with trade and capital
ows continuing to expand into these
markets to foster domestic corporate
expansion (Chart 11), it is critical for
banks to act now and capitalize on these
emerging growth opportunities.

Traditionalists are generally smaller companies with businesses

that are primarily domestic in nature. These companies use
fewer banking products on average, and they are generally
plain vanilla, such as cards, cash management and
commercial loans.
The core challenge for banks serving Traditionalist companies
is that many of these businesses have come to expect a
service model that is unsustainable. Traditionalists place great
importance on the quality of their banker (61% indicate the
strength of the banker is highly important in bank selection)
and are slower to embrace digital platforms (only 29% of
Traditionalists use mobile applications on a weekly basis).
Because of the limited projected growth potential, banks must
deploy new models that serve Traditionalist companies with an
increased focus on efciency. This will require an adjustment
period for both banks and Traditionalist customers and will
require regular and consistent communication.

Chart 11. Growth rate of trade ows (indexed at 2011)

World trade ows
200
Qatar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia,
Malaysia, United Arab Emirates
and Turkey (QISMUT) trade ows
150

100

50

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Source: World Islamic Banking Competitiveness Report 201314 The transition begins

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Diverse and Dynamics

The third major customer segment, the Diverse and Dynamics,
comprises companies that vary markedly in business strategy.
While 30% of companies are focused on revenue growth and
25% are considering a capital expenditure, there are also
distinct groups targeting improved cash ow (34%) and cost
reduction efforts (24%). Accordingly, their needs for banking
products and services vary considerably as well.
However, a common theme for the vast majority of this
segment is the eagerness to embrace technology and digital
banking, particularly for basic banking services. Given the

varied nature of the Diverse and Dynamic segment, banks

rst priority should be to classify the companies to
understand which ones fall inside and which outside of this
digital adoption group.
Within our sample, nearly 80% of Diverse and Dynamic
companies qualify as high-tech, meaning they have
demonstrated a willingness to adopt new technology for the
delivery of banking services. This further segmentation also
shows how much companies value technological sophistication
when selecting their banks (see next section).

Customer migration
Customer segmentation is critical to
properly align the needs of the customer
to the correct service model. However,
banks face additional challenges once
the segmentation process is complete,
including how best to manage the
transition of customers from one
segment to another. We believe there
are ve components to effective
customer migration:
1. Regular customer segmentation
analysis and review. Banks should
evaluate customer segments either
on a xed basis (every year) or
through an event-driven process to
ensure evolving customer needs are
properly understood and the right
service model is implemented.
2. Quarterly account meetings. These
meetings should be conducted with
the relationship manager(s), senior
bank management and any other

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specialists in regular contact with the

account. At the meetings, the bank
should do a thorough assessment of
the account, including its protability,
the trajectory of the account, and
its need for products, services and
people over the next 618 months.
3. Relationship manager migration
plan. A by-product of the
segmentation analysis and account
meetings is an assessment of the
relationship manager and, if needed,
the transition of that relationship
to a manager with the necessary
skill sets.
4. Relationship manager training.
Relationship managers should not
only be trained each year on the
best practices for cross-sell and
servicing but also on how to properly
communicate to customers the
banks servicing model plan. These

training sessions should concentrate

on consistent communications with
the customer about how roles and
services will be managed as the
companys needs and preferences
continue to evolve.
5. Evaluation of relationship manager
compensation. Compensation
packages for relationship managers
have not historically encouraged
bankers to transition customers to
another service model or banker.
Banks need to re-evaluate how they
can properly compensate the banker
to eliminate this reluctance. Some
current practices are a one-time
bonus or customer swap program.

In addition to technical savvy, banks should try to evaluate the

current and future potential value of a Diverse and Dynamic
company. Although this is difcult to assess, banks can use
propensity modeling based on information gathered at regular
account meetings or as part of feedback from their customerexperience programs. These metrics include, but are not
limited to, the following:
Indication of international and product/service expansion
are stated strategic priorities for the company
High future cross-sell potential based on t between
companys aspirations and a banks ability to support them
Use of or likely need for more complex, higher-value
products (e.g., foreign exchange, trade nance,
investment banking)
Purchasing decision not made primarily on the basis of price
Due to this complexity, the Diverse and Dynamic segment
presents the single greatest strategic opportunity for
commercial banks to establish a differentiated approach. Banks
that get it right with Diverse and Dynamic companies will
nurture their Increasingly International prospect pipeline while
efciently maintaining or exiting relationships that present less
compelling potential. Banks currently struggle to nd the right
t for these companies, thereby frustrating their customers,
causing almost one in three companies to switch providers
over the last 12 months and another third to consider
switching over the next year.5 For the most part, Increasingly
Internationals and Traditionalists are far easier to identify and
serve appropriately. Diverse and Dynamics warrant a more
exible approach.

Drivers of bank selection

and customer satisfaction
Companies assess a wide variety of binary factors (e.g.,
geographic presence, reputation) and more nuanced elements
(e.g., price, products and services) when selecting banking

5 Thirty-one percent of Diverse and Dynamic companies indicated they had

switched banks over the past 12 months, compared with 14% of Increasingly
Internationals and 7% among Traditionalists.

providers. While competitive pricing is among the drivers of

bank selection for all customer segments, it is not the only,
or even the most important, driver (see Chart 12). Bank
reputation and product quality can rank above pricing, and
factors like service quality, global reach and relationship
manager quality all carry similar weight in the decision
process. Banks must be prepared to position and then deliver
consistently strong products, people, advice and service.
A key differentiator between Increasingly Internationals and
companies in the other categories is the importance placed
by the former group on banks sophistication of technology
for product and service delivery. This factor is considered
important by 61% of Increasingly Internationals vs. just 43%
of Traditionalists and 37% of the Diverse and Dynamic group.
In addition to placing more weight on banks technology,
due to the broader span of their operations, Increasingly
Internationals also want expertise in specic industries or
sectors (63%) and service areas (60%), and they want
that expertise delivered by high-quality relationship
managers (62%).
Traditionalists evaluating potential banks are most concerned
with the quality of the relationship manager (61%), followed
closely by overall quality of service and products (60% and
59%, respectively). Only 43% of Traditionalists value a banks
technological sophistication in product and service delivery.
Because of the nature of the segment, the priorities of Diverse
and Dynamic companies are more usefully assessed through
the lens of their technical savvy:
For high-tech companies, bank reputation (48%) and
willingness to customize offerings (47%) are the most
important factors considered when selecting their banks.
Among low-tech companies, bank reputation and expertise
in a specic service area (36% each) rank as the most
important considerations as they shop for a bank.

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Chart 12. Key bank selection and performance metrics by customer segment

Increasingly Internationals

Traditionalists

Importance

Performance

Importance

Performance

Bank reputation

63%

67%

56%

53%

RM quality

62%

61%

61%

47%

Service quality

63%

61%

60%

50%

Product quality

65%

63%

59%

48%

Global reach

63%

58%

21%

32%

Industry/sector knowledge

63%

59%

42%

40%

Sophistication of technology for

product and service delivery

61%

57%

43%

42%

Expertise in a specic service area

60%

59%

46%

42%

Presence in your key growth markets

60%

56%

34%

37%

Product and service breadth/depth

59%

59%

43%

42%

Willingness to customize offerings

58%

55%

43%

34%

Competitive pricing

64%

55%

57%

39%

Fee structure exibility

56%

53%

53%

37%

Innovative processes or services

55%

55%

34%

33%

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Diverse and Dynamics (high-tech)

Diverse and Dynamics (low-tech)

Importance

Performance

Importance

Performance

Bank reputation

48%

46%

36%

38%

RM quality

42%

47%

28%

34%

Service quality

45%

46%

33%

32%

Product quality

46%

45%

30%

29%

Global reach

45%

49%

27%

33%

Industry/sector knowledge

40%

45%

22%

28%

Sophistication of technology for

product and service delivery

44%

46%

10%

25%

Expertise in a specic service area

43%

46%

36%

26%

Presence in your key growth markets

44%

48%

28%

24%

Product and service breadth/depth

42%

46%

30%

29%

Willingness to customize offerings

47%

45%

27%

26%

Competitive pricing

44%

44%

27%

30%

Fee structure exibility

43%

45%

28%

32%

Innovative processes or services

41%

48%

26%

30%

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Digital channel usage

and preferences
How companies interact with their banks varies signicantly
by customer segment.
Increasingly Internationals are among the highest adopters
of digital bank channels and the most satised with these
services. Nearly all (90%) of Increasingly Internationals use
their banks online platforms weekly including about half
that use online banking daily. Forty percent of these
companies use their banks mobile platforms every day and
a similar proportion use mobile banking at least once a week.
Although roughly 80% of Traditionalists use their banks
online platforms weekly, these companies are satised with
the digital experience far less often than other segments.
Only slightly more than one-half of Traditionalists say they
are highly satised with their banks online platform.
Traditionalists are even less enthusiastic about banks
rapidly evolving mobile banking capabilities. Only 45%
of Traditionalists use their banks mobile platforms on a
weekly basis, compared with rates of 70%80% among other
segments, and more than 40% say they have no intention of
increasing their usage in the future.
Companies in the Diverse and Dynamic segment have
markedly different channel usage patterns. The companies in
the high-tech sub-segment use mobile channels even more
frequently than Increasingly Internationals (over 80% use them
at least weekly). At the same time, companies in the low-tech
sub-segment are not yet users of digital banking services. It is
interesting to note that the high-tech group have evolved to
be regular mobile banking users and now have relatively less
frequent online banking use (37% use online banking).

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Service model strategies

Banks must continuously evaluate modes of service, assessing
emerging technologies, preferences, costs and suitability for
customers. No strategy will t every companys specic needs
perfectly, so it is important to establish a framework with a
degree of exibility built into it. Adopting a three-tier service
model strategy applied to companies based on their needs,
preferences and potential can help banks serve customers
more efciently and effectively (Chart 13).
Chart 13: Global mid-market service models
Senior relationship manager for each
account
Dedicated
banker

Supported by senior credit and risk

ofcers as well as experts on debt capital
markets and equity capital markets
All digital and self-service channels
available
Junior generalist relationship manager
for each account

Access plus

Supported by a pool of highly trained and

specialized commercial bankers as well as
a credit manager and risk ofcer
All digital and self-service channels
available
Branch, digital and self-service channels
are the foundation of this service model

Commercial
access

No relationship manager support for

day-to-day interactions
When face-to-face interaction is needed,
customers will have access to branch
personnel, including branch manager

Target operating model

A critical component of any modern
service model is a seamless branch,
online and mobile banking experience.
To serve commercial banking
relationships efciently, banks must
increasingly direct the majority of
routine bank interactions to these
lower-cost channels in order to
keep skilled bankers focused on
business development and
relationship-building activities.

For this concept to work, banks must

have an overarching operating model
in place. A number of elements need to
be considered prior to implementing a
new target operating model, including
customers, employees, operations goals
and risk factors.
In our experience, a well-dened
operating model has the following
capability requirements and must
not only seek to close process and

Dedicated banker
In this service model, the digital and self-service channels
will be paired with a named senior relationship manager.
Customers want a banker who can advise them or act as a
sounding board on major strategic decisions and not have
just a transactional relationship. This service model allows
the customer to have a dedicated representative who has
intimate knowledge of the customers account, industry and
key stakeholders. The individual relationship managers should
also have the experience and connections within the bank to
be able to navigate the organization successfully in order to
deliver the right outcomes for customers. These senior-level
bankers will be focused on cross-sell rather than accountservicing activities, which should be handled through less
costly channels.

technology gaps, but also incorporate

appropriate controls to measure and
monitor quality, risk and compliance:
1. End-to-end perspective
2. Rapid market response time
3. Common processes and data access
4. Open solutions not hard-wired to
status quo
5. Embedded comprehensive risk and
controls framework

To ensure that customers in this tranche receive highly

responsive service, the relationship managers should be
responsible for a manageable number of accounts, derived
from a capacity analysis. By handling the load in this way,
the bank will enable these highly trained and effective sales
people to build stronger relationships with the more protable
accounts and maintain and enhance the banks share of wallet.
The dedicated relationship managers will also be supported by
senior credit and risk ofcers, as well as experts on debt capital
markets and equity capital markets, to aid them in developing
and accessing more complex transactions. Also key to bankers
success will be an effective leverage model and internal
support team that maximize time spent identifying and solving
customers business problems.

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Access plus
This model features the availability of all of the 24/7 digital
and self-service channels for routine transactions, but also
includes access to a dedicated junior generalist relationship
manager. This generalist will be supported by a pool of
highly trained and specialized commercial bankers, as well as
a credit manager and risk ofcer. The teams will be collectively
equipped to address even the most sophisticated business
needs and provide meaningful advice.
Aspiring bankers can gain important relationship-building
experience overseeing between three and ve times the
number of accounts of the dedicated banker model as part of
a pooled-banker strategy. The relationship manager pool would
ideally be accessible at all times (based on a banks resources)
and have immediate access to a customers full account and
relationship information. Similar to the dedicated banker
model, it is essential that the RM pools are resources for
value-added activities and not allowed to become mired
in account-servicing that can take place through other,
lower-cost channels.
Critical to the success of the pooled-banker strategy are
effective CRM systems, clear rules of engagement and
reward/recognition programs that facilitate teams of
relationship managers and product specialists working
together seamlessly across transactions, products and points
of contact within the customer organization. Each customer
interaction must be approached with detailed understanding
of the company, its needs and the history of past bank
interactions. Many otherwise sophisticated banks still lack
sufcient CRM infrastructure and operating procedures to
execute an effective pooling strategy. Investment in this
technology, including a real-time customer relationship
dashboard and the necessary banker training, is yet another
call on scarce resources, but the efciencies that can accrue
through more streamlined banker allocation models should
outweigh the cost.

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Enabling relationship
managers through technology
To support revenue growth, relationship managers must
be equipped with the proper technology and information
to enable them to be more effective, both as advisors
for customers and as business developers for the bank.
This should include a single view of a customers entire
footprint with the bank and, ideally, real-time updates
on transactions. Mobile solutions will ensure these are
available on the road as well as in the ofce.
Information on a customers customers and suppliers,
where that is available, will help the RM anticipate
customer requirements in areas such as supplier
nancing. Digital technology will also be needed to
minimize the amount of time the RM spends dealing
with basic transactions and servicing needs. Sales
and operations leadership must streamline processes
while demonstrating to bankers various ways that
new technology can benet them and their
customer relationships.
Technology that will help support bankers includes:
Straight-through processing
CRM systems
Covenant monitoring
Salesforce automation
Our experience has shown that, for most banks, this
transformational journey evolves over time, typically
spanning two to three years. The process touches
on technology, processes and functional roles across
the organization.

Commercial access
The commercial access model includes branch, digital and
self-service channels but excludes access to a relationship
manager. This model will aim to eliminate reliance on
relationship managers for day-to-day interactions and to
make greater use of emerging digital technology to shift
these activities to lower-cost self-service channels. These
can include self-service kiosks, call centers, online chat
rooms, video conferencing and access to how-to videos for
frequently asked questions. Within this model, it is important
to provide a simple, seamless and connected experience as
customers move across channels, so that they can easily
begin a transaction in one channel and continue in another.
When face-to-face interaction is needed for product inquiries,
service or more complex transactions, the customers will
have access to branch personnel, including the branch
manager. With this model, it is anticipated that there will be
fewer human interactions with customers, particularly faceto-face, so it is crucial that banks view each human interaction
as an opportunity to strengthen the overall relationship and
position new solutions.

Aligning service models

with customer segments
Each company in each customer segment will have individual
needs, preferences and growth trajectories. Hence, there is no
perfect one-to-one relationship between customer segment
and service model. Banks will need to retain a degree of
exibility to account for exceptions. Chart 14 outlines how
banks ideally should align the three customer segments with
the three service models.
For most Increasingly International relationships, the
dedicated banker service model will be the appropriate
approach. Because these companies are growing their
businesses and expanding their geographic reach, they
are strong candidates for additional product and service
conversations. Thus, bankers need to prioritize structured
cross-selling dialogues during regularly scheduled relationship
meetings. Optimal frequency will vary by company, but
quarterly in-person meetings should be considered standard
for Increasingly International relationships.

Chart 14. Matching service models with customer segments

Increasingly
Internationals

Traditionalists

Diverse and
Dynamics

Default

As warranted

As warranted

Access plus

As warranted

Default

As warranted

Commercial access

By exception

As warranted

As warranted

Dedicated banker

The majority of companies are looking to bankers to be experts

who can help them solve specic business problems and
answer questions. More companies indicate they want their
relationship managers to be problem-solvers rather than
advisors (51% and 20%, respectively). This is an important
business development role, not to be confused with that of
a customer service representative who addresses routine
account problems or errors.
The business problem-solver role aligns well with bankers
cross-selling goals, as bankers can address various questions
or problems with unique product solutions. With Increasingly
Internationals, the relationship managers primary objectives
should be to serve as an advocate for customers within the
bank and shape cross-selling conversations by:
1. Identifying specic business problems facing the company
(liquidity, leverage, balance sheet optimization, risk
management, etc.)
2. Matching the business problem with bank products
and services
3. Presenting the company with a solution to the problem
utilizing these products and services
4. Deepening trust and uncovering additional opportunities
to expand the relationship over time

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The access plus model will most often be appropriate for

Traditionalists. However, select Traditionalists may also have
access to the dedicated banker or commercial access service
models. Management teams must be prepared for some
account attrition from companies within the Traditionalist
segment that are uncomfortable with the transition to a
commercial access model. Although this process can be
painful, it is necessary for sustainable long-term protability.
Banks must exercise the will and discipline necessary to
exit unprotable relationships that insist on outdated and
unsustainable banker coverage. Meanwhile, they must continue
to invest in leading technology platforms and digital capabilities
to ensure Traditionalist accounts are receiving a competitive
experience, commensurate with their prole.
Equally important are ongoing education programs. Banks
must sponsor and deliver customer training that continually
reinforces the benets and security of digital banking. Over
time, the sustained commitment to enhanced technology and
service strategies will combine to maximize protability within
the Traditionalist segment.
The nature of the Diverse and Dynamic segment requires
that service models be assigned according to the customers
technical savvy.
High-tech: depending on the potential value to the bank,
these companies can be serviced in two ways. The higher-value
companies resemble Increasingly Internationals in important

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ways, and in some cases will graduate to this segment over

time. However, these customers have not quite reached the
same level of demand for products and services. For such
companies, banks should employ the access plus model that
enables personalized communication, but retains the ability
to scale. Lower-value companies must be served through
the optimally efcient commercial access model, similar to
companies in the Traditionalist segment.
Low-tech: low-tech yet higher-value companies pose a
unique service model challenge they represent a potentially
meaningful opportunity for their banks, but are slow to
embrace online or mobile banking for signicant portions of
their bank interactions. In this case, the optimal model calls
for banks to assign the dedicated banker model, as they would
with Increasingly Internationals. Because these companies
demonstrate potential for meaningful growth, the cost of
an assigned relationship manager should be viewed as an
investment in the future. For the low-tech and lower-value
companies, however, the commercial access coverage model
should be assigned, similar to the case of high-tech, lowervalue companies above. The primary difference will be the
anticipated response. Because low-tech companies may resist
redirection to branch and digital channels, banks can expect
to see diminished customer satisfaction levels and attrition
from this group. There is an opportunity here to educate
these companies about the benets of the commercial access
model, including branch access, digital channels and 24/7 call
center availability.

Conclusion
The case for urgency
Banks face the challenge of adapting quickly to heightened
competition, rapidly changing technology and increased
regulatory scrutiny in the current environment. As the needs
and preferences of mid-market customers become increasingly
heterogeneous, banks must continue to evolve to avoid falling
behind. This calls for continuous customer monitoring to
understand how company executives are interacting with their
banks and making buying decisions.
In todays environment, regulatory pressure is often the
primary driver for change. As such, typical programs adopt an
inside-out approach that emphasizes regulatory compliance
achieved through technology, data and process change. We
believe this thinking should be turned on its head. An outsidein approach would be business-led, requiring only a marginal
incremental cost to deliver customer-centric products, services
and channels that address customer needs and also satisfy the
demands of regulators.

In the words of the customers

we interviewed, banks can
improve in a number of
specic ways:
Provide analysis tools to help with cash
management and understanding when money
is being spent.
Listen to the customers needs and devise
programs around them.
Be more honest and open about various
functions, allow for input and take opinions
quickly and consider them for immediate action.
Allow businesses to customize
their services.
Understand our business better and maintain
stronger local relationships.
Customize our needs and provide innovative
nancial guidance.
They should be more available and more
focused on solving our problems quickly.

This outside-in approach represents a clear call to action

for banks to refresh segmentation, identify Increasingly
International, Traditionalist and Diverse and Dynamic
companies within individual portfolios, and properly align
service strategies with appropriate bank resources. These
programs require meaningful investment in technology
rationalization, data integration and more standardized
business processes. However, best-practice banks will leverage
digital innovations that allow new channels to support
mid-market relationships of various shapes and sizes both
effectively and efciently.

Make international business simpler access

and functionality implementation. Simplicity!

Digital leaders will not only deliver new features and

functionality but, just as importantly, demonstrate a sustained
commitment to ensuring customers security. Educating
customers on the safety of online and mobile channels will
facilitate even greater adoption and free up relationship
managers to focus on their number one priority solving
customers business problems and deepening relationships.

More availability of online chat.

Stop changing the relationship managers and

limit the documentation.
Faster decision-making, better communication
and more transparency.
Be more exible, provide better trained and
experienced management, and provide more
innovative product offerings.

Enhanced security over the internet in

foreign countries.
Provide better online capabilities to trace
all transactions.
Make security tighter and clearer so that
customers feel safe.

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Contacts
Global
Bill Schlich
Global Banking & Capital Markets Leader
Toronto
william.schlich@ey.com
+1 416 943 4554

Ian Baggs
Deputy Banking & Capital Markets Leader
London
ibaggs@uk.ey.com
+44 20 7951 2152

Jan Bellens
Global Banking & Capital Markets Emerging
Markets and Asia Pacic Leader
Singapore
jan.bellens@sg.ey.com
+65 6309 6888

Steven Lewis
Global Banking & Capital Markets
Lead Analyst
London
slewis2@uk.ey.com
+44 20 7951 9471

Regional
Christopher Harris
Principal, North America Practice Lead for
Wholesale Banking
Chicago
christopher.harris@ey.com
+1 312 879 3269

Hugh Harper
Strategy, Customer & Operations Practice Leader,
EMEIA Financial Services
London
hharper@uk.ey.com
+44 207 951 4224

Noboru Miura
Banking & Capital Markets Japan Area Leader
Tokyo
miura-nbr@shinnihon.or.jp
+81 3 3503 1115

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